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multi-night sleep manipulation, after which they completed 3 tasks of interest: imperfectly identifiable dishonesty (the … Coin Flip task), identifiable dishonesty (the Matrix task), and anti-social allocation choices (the Money Burning game). We … ethical choice. When dishonesty harms an abstract "other" person (e.g., the researcher's budget), reduced deliberation more …
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individual's dishonesty strengthens the effect of the intervention. Both types of intervention are similarly effective when they …
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Using an online experiment with two distinct dishonesty games, we analyze how dishonesty in men and women is influenced … by either thinking or learning about the dishonesty of others in a related, but different situation. Thinking is induced … by eliciting a belief about others' dishonesty in a different game. We find that such belief elicitation (1) increases …
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trapped in a "Tragedy of Dishonesty", despite the presence of moral costs of lying. The risk of collective sanction is …
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We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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there is no evidence of dishonesty among younger individuals, older individuals as well as younger and older groups cheat …
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's identity to the observer. The option for observers to communicate with the sender, and the option to reveal the … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …
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Acts of dishonesty permeate life. Understanding their origins, and what mechanisms help to attenuate such acts is an … both parents and their young children as subjects. We find that the highest level of dishonesty occurs in settings where …
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We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282497
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that induce considerable uncertainty in how much workers are...
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